The Post Office Gals x 2

Soundtrack to the Movie You Never Want To See
Esbeohdes
The Post Office Gals' Myspace

A haiku about The Post Office Gals:
Crazy grindcore band
With a female synth player
They're from New Jersey

Grindcore + Weird Noises = Awesome!
Think The Locust or An Albatross.

Three from Rancid

Rancid's first record ever from 1992.
Like their first full length, one of the most noticeable things about this album is that there's no second guitar/vocalist (aka Lars, who didn't join the band til mid '93).
Five songs.
Eleven minutes.
Holds up better than their last two albums combined.


Rancid's first recording as a four piece with Lars.
Interesting Trivia:
Before Lars became an official member, Rancid tried out several other people for the position of second guitar/vocalist.
One of these people was Billie Joe Armstrong, who decided to stick with Green Day rather than join Rancid full time.
While part of Rancid, he helped write Radio, and receives a credit for it in the album's liner notes.


The Hooligans EP. Aside from "Hooligans," the album has an alternate version of "Cash, Culture, and Violence" and a song called "Things To Come." Much like Life Won't Wait, this album is very heavily ska influenced, and fairly traditional ska at that, so expect horn sections and upstrokes aplenty.

AFI / Swingin' Utters - Bombing the Bay

AFI in 1995:



AFI today:





Okay, all meanness aside, here's another split.



AFI (from back when they were a hardcore punk band) covers Dag Nasty's "Values Here," while Swingin' Utters give us "Annual Pimple," a song that resurfaced thirteen years later on their b-sides album.

Slayer and TSOL - Abolish Government [Split 7"]

Ever wondered what it would sound like if Slayer covered TSOL?
Probably not, but here's this album anyway.
On one side you have Slayer covering Abolish Government and Superficial Love, while the other side has the original versions, performed by TSOL, plus one new TSOL song.

Kill Your Idols / Modern Life Is War - Live from WLUW Split

Here's another split 7", this time from two amazing hardcore bands, both of whom are now (unfortunately) defunct.
Check it out.

NOFX - 7" of the Month Club

I've been reading a lot about the whole "Fat Mike mindfucks his audience at SXSW" thing, so in honor of that, here's the whole NOFX 7" of the month club collection.



And here's a link on the SXSW incident, just in case you were wondering.

Dillinger Four / Pinhead Gunpowder Split 7"

This is one of my favorite split albums, and posting it feels right after having put up that Cleveland Bound Death Sentence album earlier today.
CBDS's two most well known members (Paddy and Cometbus) are once again both present on this 7", albeit this time they're in different bands. Also like CBDS, Pinhead Gunpowder could maybe be considered a "supergroup", seeing as how it's Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day singing and Cometbus on drums.